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Re: [TowerTalk] Screened walls and floors

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Screened walls and floors
From: jimlux <jimlux@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 10:19:16 -0800
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On 12/5/16 8:55 AM, Grant Saviers wrote:
We built a Faraday cage big enough for an engineer and equipment and
learned that a special screen material is needed.  Regular copper
screening has lots of crossovers that aren't really connected or worse
are oxidized contacts and can make the noise worse.  A tech was assigned
to solder the wires in strips every 4 inches x,y,z, which took a couple
of days and made for a very unhappy tech.  The results were ugly but RF ok.

You want "welded screen" as opposed to "woven screen" - standard steel hardware cloth would probably work.

"real" screen rooms are made with aluminum or galvanized steel sheet (which is probably cheaper than screen, and a whole lot easier to make sure it connects to everything).






I don't see a benefit for a station.  IMO, it's a better use of time to
concentrate on a good building perimeter ground, the entry plate, good
chokes, and insuring no RFI sources from equipment inside the building.


Indeed...

And you will find it very inconvenient that cellphones and VHF/UHF HTs don't work (or work poorly) in your shack, too. The old shack at JPL was a building with metal lined walls, and if the door closed, you can't raise the JPL repeater with a HT.


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